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Custom Soil Resource Report <br /> Routt Area, Colorado, Parts of Rio Blanco and Routt Counties <br /> 7C—Morapos loam, 3 to 12 percent slopes <br /> Map Unit Setting <br /> National map unit symbol: kOf3 <br /> Elevation: 6,300 to 7,220 feet <br /> Mean annual precipitation: 16 to 20 inches <br /> Mean annual air temperature: 41 to 45 degrees F <br /> Frost-free period. 70 to 110 days <br /> Farmland classification: Not prime farmland <br /> Map Unit Composition <br /> Morapos and similar soils: 85 percent <br /> Minor components: 15 percent <br /> Estimates are based on observations, descriptions, and transects of the mapunit. <br /> Description of Morapos <br /> Setting <br /> Landform: Hills <br /> Landform position (two-dimensional): Backslope <br /> Landform position (three-dimensional): Side slope <br /> Down-slope shape: Linear <br /> Across-slope shape: Linear <br /> Parent material: Slope alluvium derived from shale <br /> Typical profile <br /> A-0 to 6 inches: loam <br /> AB-6 to 12 inches: loam <br /> Bt- 12 to 16 inches: clay <br /> Btk- 16 to 22 inches: clay <br /> Bk1 -22 to 32 inches: clay <br /> Bk2-32 to 40 inches: clay loam <br /> Bk3-40 to 60 inches: clay loam <br /> Properties and qualities <br /> Slope: 3 to 12 percent <br /> Depth to restrictive feature: More than 80 inches <br /> Drainage class:Well drained <br /> Runoff class: Medium <br /> Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water(Ksat): Moderately low to <br /> moderately high (0.07 to 0.21 in/hr) <br /> Depth to water table: More than 80 inches <br /> Frequency of flooding: None <br /> Frequency of ponding: None <br /> Calcium carbonate, maximum content: 15 percent <br /> Maximum salinity: Nonsaline to very slightly saline(0.0 to 2.0 mmhos/cm) <br /> Sodium adsorption ratio, maximum:2.0 <br /> Available water supply, 0 to 60 inches: High (about 10.6 inches) <br /> Interpretive groups <br /> Land capability classification(irrigated): 4e <br /> Land capability classification(nonirrigated): 4e <br /> Hydrologic Soil Group: C <br /> 13 <br />